Adjective

(er)

Comfortable; at ease.

* , chapter=16

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}

Requiring little skill or effort.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}

Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.

Rich people live in easy circumstances.

an easy chair

Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.

easy''' manners; an '''easy style

* Alexander Pope

the easy vigour of a line

(informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.

Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.

* Dryden

He gained their easy hearts.

* Sir Walter Scott

He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.

Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.

The market is easy .

Adjective

(er)

Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:The outlines must be smooth , imperceptible to the touch, and even, without eminence or cavities.

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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.

*{{quote-book, year=2005, author=Lesley Brown, title=Sophist, extra=, by=(Plato)

, passage=Teaching that’s done by talking seems to have one rough path and another part which is smoother .}}

Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.

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* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England :

*:England's path to Poland and Ukraine next summer looked to be a smooth one as goals from Ashley Young and Darren Bent gave them a comfortable lead after 31 minutes.

Bland; glib.

*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)

*:This smooth discourse and mild behavior oft / Conceal a traitor.

*{{quote-book, year=1912, author=(Gustavus Myers), title= History of the Supreme Court of the United States, page=133

, passage=This feeling, grounded on the experience of centuries of oppression, was not to be allayed by smooth explanations on the part of the advocates of the Constitution.}}

Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:the only smooth poet of those times

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join / The varying verse, the full-resounding line.

*(John Gay) (1685-1732)

*:When sage Minerva rose, / From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows.

(lb) Suave; sophisticated.

*{{quote-book, year=2003, author=T. Lewis Humphrey, isbn=0595272606, title= The Price of Love, page=279

, passage=He was so smooth and handsome. He knew just what to say and when to say it.}}

(lb) Natural; unconstrained.

*{{quote-book, year=2006, author=Mary Kay Moskal and Camille Blachowicz, title= Reading for Fluency, isbn=1593852649, page=3

, passage=In order for a reading to be smooth and effortless, readers must be able to recognize and read words accurately, automatically, and quickly.}}

(lb) Unbroken.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author=United States (National Guard Bureau), title= Manual of Basic Training and Standards of Proficiency for the National Guard

, page=181 , passage=Demonstrate first by the numbers and then as one smooth movement.}}

Placid, calm.

*, title= An American Cruiser in the East, page=47

, passage=As we worked to the southward, we picked up fair weather, and enjoyed smooth seas and pleasant skies.}}

(lb) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.

*{{quote-book, year=1994, author=Robert E. Swanson, isbn=0801845564, title= A Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Southern Appalachians, page=8

, passage=A leaf having a smooth margin, without teeth or indentations of any kind, is called entire.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1997, author=Christopher Dickey, isbn=0684842009, title= Innocent Blood: A Novel, page=91

, passage=Out of the handles flipped the smooth blade and the serrated blade, which was dangerously sharp, the flathead screwdrivers, the Phillips screwdriver, the can opener, the awl.}}

(lb) Not grainy; having an even texture.

*{{quote-book, year=1997, author=Lou Seibert Pappas, isbn=0811815730, title= Sorbets and Ice Creams, page=19

, passage=A compact and stylish design, it produces 1 generous quart of excellent, smooth ice cream in 20 to 25 minutes.}}

(lb) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.

*{{quote-book, year=2002, author=Candace Irvin, isbn=0373079362, title= For His Eyes Only, page=9

, passage=The coffee was smooth , so smooth she took another sip.}}

Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.

*{{quote-book, year=2003, author=Eric W. Weisstein, isbn=1584883472, title= CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, page=419

, passage=Any ANALYTIC FUNCTION is smooth . But a smooth function is not necessarily analytic.}}

Lacking marked aspiration.

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